title: Early orthodontic treatment.
abstract: Early orthodontic treatment will not resolve all potential orthodontic problems or totally inhibit adverse skeletal growth patterns. However, by identifying problems at an early age it is possible to redirect skeletal growth; improve the occlusal relationship; enhance the patient's esthetics and self-image and, perhaps of even greater importance, achieve results that are unattainable later with the eruption of teeth and the cessation of growth.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Orthodontic Department, University of Detroit, School of Dentistry, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003818:Dentition, Mixed; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000628:therapy*; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective / Q000379:methods; D009972:Orthodontics, Interceptive / Q000379:methods; D009973:Orthodontics, Preventive / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous